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Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Death by Curried Egg Sandwich!

Death by Curried Egg Sandwich!

December 2003, Julie Michele Dunn and Graham Wilks, lived
together in Davoren Park in Adelaide’s northern suburbs as a de facto couple.Dunn, 40, one day decided she no longer
wanted to be with Wilks. She made him his favourite snack, a curried egg
sandwich, and laced it with the sedative temazepam.

Temazepam is a very strong sedative used to treat insomnia
patients, and is in the same group of drugs as Xanax and Valium, known as
sedative-hypnotics.

Wilks soon fell asleep after ingesting an unknown amount of
the strong sedative, cleverly hidden in the strong-tasting curry egg sandwich.
Helpless to know what was coming, and unable to defend himself.

Dunn, bashed her partner over the head
at least three times with a heavy blunt object. The trauma of which would
slowly kill Wilks as he slept.

Later, Dunn would
call an ambulance and a police investigation would begin. Dunn, the only
suspect was arrested, and taken into custody.

During questioning, Dunn tried to blame the murder of Wilks firstly on her son,
then on another man who had been recently released from prison. It would later
be alleged by the prosecution that Dunn had killed Wilks so she could be with
the newly released (unidentified in court proceedings) man who was a former
lover of Dunn.

Dunn also tried to tell police she had
acted in self-defense, an argument quickly rejected by Justice Anderson.

Dunn’s first outcome from trial, a 20-year sentence, was
overturned on appeal as the Judge had not properly instructed the jury. Her
second trial, under Justice Margaret Nyland reduced the original sentence from
20 years, to 18 years.

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All photos remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are displayed here for the purpose of education, research and review under the copyright act "fair usage" clause.

Some photo's used on this website are sourced from The Sate Library of South Australia, and The National Library of Australia and http://www.gawler.nowandthen.net.au - all photos are out of copyright and have no usage restrictions implied.

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On the 7-1-2013, The Haunts of Adelaide was added to The National Library of Australia's "Pandora" archive.http://pandora.nla.gov.au/